Hidden Genre Gems In Alignment with the style of Her Own People: Cult Guide

Dir: Scott Sidney

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Scott Sidney

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of 'Twas Henry's Fault perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Scott Sidney

Against the wishes of his woman-hating uncle, Jack married. While on his honeymoon they meet Uncle, and when they're forced to take him home, Jack explains that his bride is only a servant. Uncle, noticing that this "servant" is a very pretty young woman, asks her hand in marriage but is told she is already taken. To carry on the affair, another young man is introduced as her husband, which complicates affairs because this young man has a very jealous wife. A series of alternate lovemaking follows until Uncle discovers the plot and the young married couple confesses their guilt.

Dir: Scott Sidney

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Let Me Explain perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Husband, wife, baby, and dog arrive in California in a flivver. As they have great difficulty in finding a hotel that will allow babies and dogs, they buy a lot and a portable bungalow. After putting it up they discover that they built the house over the baby, so they tear it all down and set it up again. But just before they move in, a real-estate agent arrives to tell them that they built upon the wrong lot. They put the house on wheels and tow it through the town, but the rope breaks and the house runs wild. After they place it on the proper lot, the inspectors inform them that a building permit is required, and once more the house is knocked down. But during this time the baby was making mud pies out of what turned to be an oil well.

Dir: Scott Sidney

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Scott Sidney

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of No Parking perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Scott Sidney

Reared by a childless ape, the orphaned heir of the Greystokes becomes one of the apes. Then Dr Porter organises a rescue expedition, and his beautiful daughter Jane catches his attention. Has Tarzan of the Apes found the perfect mate?

Dir: Scott Sidney

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Smart Aleck perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A young man's sweetie insists that he have his fortune told. Listening outside the tent, she hears the fortune teller say that a blonde will be his ruin and as she herself is a brunette she immediately is on her guard. Then come a lot of meetings with blonde beauties on the beach with much trouble for the sweethearts. Finally she buys a blonde wig and vamps the boy herself and it all ends right.

Dir: Scott Sidney

Most of the patients of Dr. Ward Allison are women, and his wife Margery is becoming increasingly jealous of all the time he spends with them. One day he tells her that he has been called out of town, but she is told that he is really staying at the house of a friend and colleague, Dr. Hendon, and the two are planning wild parties with their female patients. What she finds out, however, is even more shocking than what she expected.

Dir: Scott Sidney

The younger of two sisters is sufficiently attractive to steal the other's admirers. To stop this pirating, mother and elder sister conceive the idea of putting the baby vamp into rompers, leaving her a baby, but no longer a vamp. The scheme works well, but the girl is as attractive as a child as she was as a young lady, and the young man in the case is willing to play with dolls in order to be near her. Her real age is finally discovered, but when the couple try the elopement act, the minister orders the child sent back to her mother.